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Blood Sweat & Gears! Adventure Travel in SA
We are all different. Some like to sit down by the fire, others like to jump in it. If you have been reading this blog, you should be following my tweets (do it now, click-ity click here), and you should know that I cheep about South African tourism and travel (mixed in with the occasional fallen comments). Today I felt like writing something a little different. Maybe I was spurred on by my guilty gut telling me I need to get more active, or maybe it’s been the OD of sport in the media...but how great is it that Adventure Tourism is such ...
Flexi Club Ahoy
Our fans disappeared as we rounded the mouth of the harbour. The goodbyes were gone. Soon we were totally alone, no matter where we looked there were vast voids of streaky waves. White horses lapped up the side of the Melody like suds at a carwash. I lapped up the sun and earned the worst short tan ever (This is probably why the Irish never colonised anything). This was my trip on the MSC Melody, and my first time at sea. Even though I had never been at sea (I once watched Titanic, if that counts) I quickly grew a pair of sea ...
Living in a Box of Trees
Just the other day I tweeted a link to a box. This was not an ordinary box, it was a ‘magical’ box made out of mirrors. And what does it do? It fooled you into thinking you were some place else! Jokes and smoke aside, along the streets of Amsterdam stands a box called the ‘Unlimited Urban Woods’ enclosing a ‘forest’ as far as the eye can see. It is not the architectural feat that sparks my interest, but the social comment I draw out of such a land mark. How detached from reality are we exactly? As my colleague Bradley recently ...
It’s open gates for SANPark!
Regardless of your beliefs of the beginning you cannot argue that once upon a time we (well, our ancestors) lived in a place called 'The Wild'. And just how far have we gone from it? We swapped our caves for houses (fair trade) and our skins for suits (that’s fine), but I wouldn’t swap the wildlife and parks for the world. For sure I am accustomed to my new environment, and I don’t think that I could swing from tree to tree hunting down a Jane, but isn’t it nice to get out there for a while? SANParks have recently announced that ...
The Hermanus Horn
Along the south shores of the Western Cape, a man stands blowing a horn… made of kelp. Between short blasts he moves among viewpoints, patrolling the shoreline for submerged bodies. His top hat stands proudly. Around his neck rests a sandwich board, tallying up the beasts he has seen today. The Worlds only Whale Crier, Zolile Baleni, helps direct tourists on their ‘pilgrimage’ to Hermanus. Previously known as Hermanuspietersfontein (say that in a rush), Hermanus draws hundreds of whale watchers every year. From June through to November every year, Southern Right whales gather off of Hermanus to mate and calve in Walker ...
Flexi Club, Getaway Show and the Cheetah Wildlife Sanctuary
I grow stubble just gawking at the glossy pages of the Getaway magazine (women please read with caution). Poster page destinations, outdoor gadgets, mud and 4×4’s; escapism in its purist form. This dispenser of adventure anecdotes is no longer just a magazine, but a company that dishes out travel stories and dreams to ‘junkies’ via [...]
Continue reading...6. September 2010
Brian Delcarme: Italy, Florida & the Silversands Resort
What’s the name of your favorite resort? Our family does not have a favorite resort per se, but our favorite destination so far is most definitely Orlando Florida. If we could choose the most exciting resort it would have to be Orange Lake Resort, Orlando with all its activities, various pools and a cinema! Tell us a [...]
Continue reading...31. August 2010
Quick flip: From Pakistan to Malaysia
When every movie is set in the States, why would I want to visit it? Don’t get me wrong, I would still love to jet set across the world and visit the big hubs, but after looking through these slide shows of Malaysia and Pakistan I wouldn’t mind travelling somewhere off the beaten path. I guess it’s [...]
Continue reading...30. August 2010
Heritage Site Holidays
Nice shirt. Nice car. Nice phone. A pity it won’t be around for much longer. I guess that’s the way our world is. Here one day, gone the next. Fast consumption. Nothing seems to last forever. If it doesn’t break, it goes out of fashion. With all the transactions, interactions and reactions we deal with on [...]
Continue reading...7. September 2010
Flexi Club, Getaway Show and the Cheetah Wildlife Sanctuary
I grow stubble just gawking at the glossy pages of the Getaway magazine (women please read with caution). Poster page destinations, outdoor gadgets, mud and 4×4’s; escapism in its purist form. This dispenser of adventure anecdotes is no longer just a magazine, but a company that dishes out travel stories and dreams to ‘junkies’ via [...]
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7. September 2010
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